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A federal judge for the Eastern District of Virginia has ruled that the user of any computer that connects to the Internet should not have an expectation of privacy because computer security is ineffectual at stopping hackers.
"Hacking is much more prevalent now than it was even nine years ago, and the rise of computer hacking via the Internet has changed the public's reasonable expectations of privacy," the judge wrote. "Now, it seems unreasonable to think that a computer connected to the Web is immune from invasion. Indeed, the opposite holds true: In today's digital world, it appears to be a virtual certainty that computers accessing the Internet can—and eventually will—be hacked."
The judge argued that the FBI did not even need the original warrant to use the NIT [Network Investigative technique/Toolkit] against visitors to PlayPen, a hidden service on the Tor network that acted as a hub for child exploitation.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 02 2016, @11:39AM
There's nothing stopping you from having a foot thick oak door with hinges as big as your wrist though.
You forget how much excess military equipment has been given to the police to "counter threats of terrorism". Since there is no actual threat of terrorism, they keep using their new toys whenever they get even a smallest excuse. A foot thick oak door is a great excuse (as you are obviously hiding something) to get out an MRAP [wikipedia.org] and a few bazookas.
If the police can't kick your door down, they'll just flatten your entire house. Well, sometimes they'll flatten it [imgur.com] just because they're scared of a shoplifter [techdirt.com]...
Ain't police state fun (for the police)?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 03 2016, @11:22AM
Well at least there was someone in there for the "brave boys in blue" to be scared of unlike this case:
http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/melinda-de-la-torre-raid/ [policestateusa.com]
A SWAT team spent hours firing “mortars, grenades, and teargas canisters” at an empty home. The 4-hour siege destroyed windows, doors, and walls and left the home in ruin. The suspect didn’t even live at the address, and the innocent homeowner was left homeless for months and ultimately was stuck with over $100,000 in repair bills, which the responsible parties have refused to pay.
I'll say it again, the big problem in the US is too many of your cops are cowards. I'm a coward too, but at least I don't go around pretending to be a cop. If you're that scared to put your life at risk you should not be a cop, you'd be a danger to yourself and everyone else. And you'll just make things worse.
Same for soldiers.